Donations fund this site and ongoing ethnographic research on folk martial arts and traditions in rural north China. This includes the purchase of hardware, equipment for data analysis and field expeditions.
Dawn Technology di-GPS Eco ProF unit for Nikon SLR cameras In a previous article, I discussed the utility of having latitude and longitude locational metadata (also referred to as ‘geodata’) embedded in photographs. For me, understanding the spatial relationships in…
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Anthropologists and social scientists will often conduct ethnographic research at more than one field site over the course of several years. If photography and videography are an important aspect of your field research methodologies, you will soon acquire a large…
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I first realized the advantages of Personal Information Manager (PIM) software while working as a researcher and writer at the University of Regina. I began using Microsoft OneNote to assist with the preparation of reports and encyclopedia articles. OneNote was…
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Social science researchers using photography and video as integral parts of their research will soon accumulate very large collections of images, video, audio and text files. Unless you have a system for organizing and cataloguing data, your collection will soon…
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Review of MyInfo Freeform Personal Organizer after 3 years of daily use. Currently in revision! Check back in a few weeks. A greatly expanded review is in the works! MyInfo is a software application commonly known as “Note-taking software” or…
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